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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 6h

It's not edgy to say edgy.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

Ah, yes, the double standard.

Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.

Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.

Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 7h

Greetings from hell.

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 22h

You've reminded me of my favorite-ever UK design, a pal used to keep this in a jacket pocket as a good luck token (jacket was eventually stolen) www.copescoins.com/blogs/copes-...

The 1973 EEC Clasped Hands 50p Coin - is it rare?

In 1973, Britain finally joined the European Economic Community, EEC, after a vote that took place in Parliament where MPs voted 301-284 in favour of joining the EEC. In 1973, the Royal Mint introduce...

www.copescoins.com

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

Underlining the notion of European-ness, not merely nationalism, would love to see countries trading poets on their currency.
I want more of this sort of thing, but our money is somewhat more static www.changechecker.org/2024/09/20/c...

Can you complete the shield!? - Change Checker

Did you know that since 2008 the UK's definitive coins can be pieced together to form the Royal Shield of Arms? Can you collect them all...

www.changechecker.org

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

If only to ask, "How many Ellingtons do I owe you?"

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a big advocate for the "rotate different Great Figures from your country on the money" style that I got used to in the UK.

You could even keep the Classic Guys on one side of the money - I just want to pay for stuff with a Duke Ellington $20.

tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

This thread reminded me of the best currency, the literary kind.
www.leftovercurrency.com/exchange/fre...

tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh good one--first woman to win a Nobel for literature!

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

Also: www.leftovercurrency.com/exchange/jap...

1000 Japanese Yen (Soseki Natsume) - Exchange yours for cash

Get paid in 3 easy steps for your 1000 Japanese Yen banknote (Soseki Natsume). At Leftover Currency we exchange your withdrawn Japanese Yen banknotes

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

This thread reminded me of the best currency, the literary kind.
www.leftovercurrency.com/exchange/fre...

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon: "Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it."

tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

Really makes you wish there was sosh media in the Nixon era.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about this is we all have embarrassing moments of vanity, wounded or otherwise. It's that he thinks it's okay to publish his embarrassing thoughts. That's the crazy part.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

1:36 AM

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 1d

Golden Rule: “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down… We want to put them in trauma.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 2d

Bring your army; but, I think, you'll find
They've not prepared for us.
- Coriolanus (I, 2)

The Portland protest frog stands up to a line of POS ICE goons.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely heartwarming to read all the great reviews by people who value real life: "this place has been here forever and they know everything about vacuums" wait til the kids discover physical retail they're gonna flip

tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 2d

Our over-a-decade-old vacuum needs a part that I could have ordered on Amazon, but fuck those guys. Found it on a physical vacuum store's website--kicker, they're located in Chicago. It's worth it to find brick-and-mortar stores and support them for a few bucks more.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

If airports won't play a state media video featuring Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for long TSA lines, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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tendersociety @tendersociety.bsky.social · 2d

"dryer walk with me"
www.reddit.com/r/centuryhom...

From the centuryhomes community on Reddit: Leaning into scary basement

Explore this post and more from the centuryhomes community

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 2d

The first-ever U.S. appearance of the endangered Waved Albatross recently happened off Marin County! #birds #birdwatching #SanFrancisco www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/08/e...

Endangered albatross native to Galapagos Islands spotted off Marin County coast in first documented sighting north of Costa Rica

A seabird tour off the coast of Sonoma and Marin counties over the weekend included the sighting of a species of albatross that normally lives near the Galapagos Islands.

www.pressdemocrat.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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